Gartner Reviews

Pros

Name recognition. If you are in IT, you are familiar with Gartner. Smart people, great vision, growing company with lots of opportunities.

Cons

As with many companies there are several layers of unnecessary managers that report to one another. Happy to be a part of this company, though sometimes I feel like I complete spreadsheets so that my manager can check a to do off the list. I have a great manager, so I am not complaining.

Advice to Senior Management

Keep doing what you are doing. Most of the people at Gartner are happy to be a part of your team. My only advice is to focus on the big picture and not metrics that have been created for the masses and not the individual.

Pros

You have access to a vast amount of technology insight that you can't get anywhere else. If you put in the time to read the reports you will be smarter that when you first joined. They provide the best sales training that is effective and powerful. You feel that you truly work for the best company in research and advisory - bar none. The Winner's Circle events are great recognition. More importantly, everyone is recognized when they do a job well done. Area Managers are very good at recognition in a timely manner. Work/Life balance is great. You work from home - so you must be a self-starter. The events wow every attendee.

Cons

High turnover of sales people.
Limited career path in sales - Senior Account Manager to an Area Manager to 1 VP to SVP.

Advice to Senior Management

Look at changing the sales segmentation model based on size of region - the blanket thresholds across the board can leave you missing sales oportunities because inside sales rep may not be aware or calling on prospects

Pros

- great IT world observatory
- interesting job and outstanding knowledge sharing
- good compensation & benefits

Cons

- difficulties for junior
- some Times intangible value
 - lack of guidance at country level

Advice to Senior Management

- increase internal communication
- think globally, act locally

Pros

Gartner has a solid benefits package. There have some smart people. If you are in sales and you miss your number, bye bye.

Cons

Analysts are aging fast and are overworked in some areas, others do next to nothing. Particularly true when so many cover Comms and literally do very little. 600 analysts? Sorry, only about 100 that are real analysts. The rest just count things.

Advice to Senior Management

Share the wealth - all the stock goes to Sr Managers.

Pros

--work with really smart people
--good manager who knew how to team build remote/virtual teams and keep lines of communications open
--knew what was expected of me
--good work/life balance
--great flexibility
--opportunity to make an impact on clients

Cons

--requirements to continually update stats on quarterly basis can be boring over the course of a ten+year career
--too many "chiefs", not enough indians" in that there are lots of high level titles, but by simply not enough lower level staff. By employing a few more entry-level people to take the burden of the "grunt" work off of VPand Research Director levels, one could probably have been much more productive
--obsession with metrics started to get out of control in 2009, I understand it's even worse now

Advice to Senior Management

--better paths to advance
--more opportunity for training
--need for more entry level staffers to be part of teams to support efforts of the whole team, and leave higher level staffers to big think stuff, not grunt work

Pros

Name brand
Opportunity to set IT agenda

Cons

Knowledge sharing
Pay not commensurate with experience
Lack of support

Advice to Senior Management

Sell the consulting unit

Pros

Great brand
Hugely respected in the industry - opens many doors
Lovely offices
Opportunity to earn in sales is huge
Excellent benefits package

Cons

Moves goal posts
"Cut throat" - if you're not at 100% of target, whatever the reason you're out
Doesn't promote teamwork
Withholds information
Disparity in the team
Encourages inter-colleague compeition

Advice to Senior Management

More information sharing between colleagues would yield better results. Why put people in competition with each other?

Pros

Good salary, good benefits, very flexible

Cons

not much room for advancement

Advice to Senior Management

create more opportunity for growth in finance

Pros

Brand recognition
Ability to impact clients
Narrow focus on subject matter
Remote work
Working with brilliant people

Cons

Kafka-esque management
Most sycophantic environment I have ever seen
Bell curve ranking of small groups
Admin overhead grows logarithmically
IT systems are worst in class .. Doesn't follow own research
No training
No hope of advancement so expect to stay in role
Middle managers will throw workers under a bus
Long work hours min. 12 hour days

Advice to Senior Management

Stop the bell curve
More leaders and fewer yes men managers who make busywork
Get back to basics of satisfying customers
Cut the internal red tape
Have an internal IT revolution

Pros

Great products and brand
Great opportunity to be the "good guy"as a vendor

Cons

lack of ability to be promoted
delay to recognize market conditions in the markeing/sales area

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to the feet on the street - they can prevent CV loss